HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080602540
Bassin de Spring Canyon Creek
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Inyo, Mono
Sub-basin area
996,5km²
Upstream area
2 127,2km²
Discharge
8,62m³/s
Mean elev.
2 131m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Spring Canyon Creek818 km²
- Bassin de Hutchinson Creek313 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 935.8 km²93.9% of basin
- 61.2 km²6.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
White Mountains
IUCN IbWilderness
325.67 km² overlap
Chidago Canyon
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
70.27 km² overlap
Casa Diablo
IUCN IbWilderness Study Area
10.54 km² overlap
Forest
7.13 km² overlap
Mcafee Meadow
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 904 distinct species · 73 498 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Spring Canyon Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
7,4°C
Annual rain
277mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
128mm/an
PET
1 112mm
AET
232mm
Mean slope
12,7°
Water table
528cm
Forest
18%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)